Living With Life-Threatening Illness - A Guide for Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers

A hands-on guide for patients, families, and caregivers to living an affirming existence while facing the physical and spiritual traumas of life-threatening illness.

List of contents

Foreword by Charles A. Corr.

Responses to Life-Threatening Illness.

Understanding the Illness Experience.

Understanding the Road Before.

The Crisis of Diagnosis.

Living with Disease.

Coping with Recovery.

Facing the Crisis of Death.

Facing Illness as a Family.

Coping with Loss.

The Sensitive Caregiver.

Conclusion.

Appendix 1: Resources.

Appendix 2: Examples of Health Care Proxies and Living Wills.

About the author

KENNETH J. DOKA is a professor of gerontology at the Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle and a Lutheran minister. He is the former president of the Association of Death Education and Counseling and the author of Disenfranchised Grief and Death and Spirituality.

Summary

This hands-on guide for patients, families, and caregivers concerns how to live an affirming existence while facing the physical and spiritual traumas of life-threatening illness. Every page of this book reveals the author's keen awareness of the challenges faced by patients, families, and caregivers dealing with life threatening illnesses.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth J Doka, Kenneth J. Doka, Kj Doka, Doka Kenneth J.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.1998
• EAN: 9780787940485
• ISBN: 978-0-7879-4048-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Critical Care, Popular medicine & health, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Intensive Care Medicine, Popular medicine and health, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General